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Here I'll start presenting the characters from Osamu Tezuka's star-system appearing in Blue Blink which is Tezuka's last work:

Sharaku:
Episode: 3# The Hostage in Rose Mansion

Role: Prince from West.
Objective: He wanted to marry Princess Kirara, but he failed to pass her riddles and was punished.
He was last seen after Kakeru took him out from the "Sweat Room" (a room used for torture).

Curious notes:
Sharaku doesn't have his trademark cross shapped bandage and neither owns a third eye.
So, his forehead is pretty plain.

Duke Duralumin:
Episode: #8 The Tempting Island: Cobalt

Role: Servant.
Objective: Briefly appears announcing the arrival of Kakaru at the palace.
Disappears shortly after.

Dr. Kiriko:
Episode 11: The 3 Primary Colors.

Role: Evil Scientist.
Objective: In the story he is Dr. Gari who is one of Emperor Gross allies.
He was controling people's emotions with his artificial suns and was lured outside after Kakeru tricked the citizens to enter a cave where the sunlight could no longer control them.
After he attempted to kill Kakeru and Blink, but both fooled him into destroying his own artificial suns.
Blinded with rage he chased Kakeru and Blink till the edge of the valley and tried ram on them, but fell into the abyss.
He appears to have died afterward.

I watched the 1st episode, but thought it was for very young kids, & lost interest.

He has little, if any physical similarity to Hamegg.

While his bangs are similar to Dororo's, the back of his hair is not. See the portrait on the Dororo manga page: . Shinichi's hair is similar to Dororo's: .

You know, I think the only series Kiriko appears in (other than Black Jack) and DOESN'T die is Phoenix, in volume 8... that makes me pretty sad to be honest, since he gets like two panels. Haha, I guess that's the fate of a villain.

Anyway, now I'm tempted to at least watch episode 11 of Blue Blink for him. So thanks for posting this!

The characters of Blue Blink make an appearance in the especial featuring Osamu Tezuka and his characters.
But they're just making non speaking cameo appearances.
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Spider:

Appears in all episodes:
Description: Despite not appearing as an character, the image of Spider can be seem at the back of Tamba's bus.
It's hard to miss him.

I always count any appearances, even that of the robot Grotesque on the little boy's bedroom wall in the 2003 series.